Movies: Gaumont British Instructional

History - and natural history - filmed on location in Selborne, East Hampshire. This unusual edition of the long-running series Secrets of Life tells the story of the village's famous son, Rev Gilbert White, whose 1789 book The Natural History and An...

A Secrets of Life short about the tawny owl....

Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae. Urchins, lugworm, weaver-fish and crabs are the shy-but-elegant stars coaxed onto t...

Documentary about the building of ships at Barrow-in-Furness....

Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold shipment on the Scotland to London express. A scatterbrained scientist, a gun-toting dame with revenge on he...

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army....

A Secrets of Life short about waterfowl....

E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort....

A retired Major's efforts to hone his golf skills are thwarted by the diminutive but defiant common daisy....

A Secrets of Life short about the sawfly....

A Secrets of Life short....

Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar....

Explores the natural history of the otter, depicted through the fictitious account of a day in the life of Otto the Otter and his mother. The narrator claims that the short features "the first film ever taken of an otter swimming underwater."...

"If they were as rare as orchids we would probably rave about them" opens this film in the Secrets of Nature series, directed by the prolific Mary Field. The mesmerising time-lapse photography is offset by a jokey commentary voiced by EVH Emmett, the...

A Secrets of Life short about the production of seeds....

A Secrets of Life short about the Sparrow Hawk....

This film shows how and why the animals which inhabit a pond are dependent one on another for their survival. We see the minnow in pursuit of water fleas and a stickleback seeking worms to satisfy his need of fuel. Carbon-dioxide, we are reminded, is...

A Secrets of Life short about the movement of animals....

A Secrets of Life short....

The Case of The Missing Scene is a children's crime thriller that has been designed in the tradition of classic British children's films. A camera team takes pictures of rare birds from a hide when a poacher happens to get into the picture. The evide...